Rat Control (or rather elimination)

[geoff]

I have a very annoying and clever rat in one of my sheds. I've been setting a Fenn trap for it, baited with Nutella. It's cocked and set right on the edge of the catch - I reckon if I walk up and down too hard I'll trigger it, but somehow it keeps being licked clean, yet the trap doesn't go off. I couldn't do it, so I have no idea how the rat is!

 

I'd rather trap it as I have barn owls around.

 

Alec

 

Try putting the bait in a bit of the wifes stocking,drill the trap plate & tie the stocking ball to it,they will set it off then.

[RDB logs]

I have a very annoying and clever rat in one of my sheds. I've been setting a Fenn trap for it, baited with Nutella. It's cocked and set right on the edge of the catch - I reckon if I walk up and down too hard I'll trigger it, but somehow it keeps being licked clean, yet the trap doesn't go off. I couldn't do it, so I have no idea how the rat is!

 

I'd rather trap it as I have barn owls around.

 

Alec

 

ive got the same rat and same trap and same bait in my shed! wildlife cam revealed it was a mouse and too light for the tread to spring so feeding it to make heavier and one day it will get caught out:thumbup:

[chipper080]

If you want i will come in with my air rifle, Nothing like a good rat hunt.

[Alycidon]

Poison every time, use bait dispensers AND bank cash bags filled with poison that are the stuffed down rat holes WITH A STICK.

 

Dont forget that rats can carry Weils disease, this can be fatal to humans if it enters the blood stream perhaps through a cut. So always wear gloves when messing about with rats.

 

Have occasionally trimmed them up with a 22LR semi when waiting for something else to turn up. Had a stoat in a rat hole one morning, rats running everywhere, went through a banana mag in no time then the stoat appeared and was added to the bag.

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Edited January 8, 2013 by Alycidon

[chipper080]

If you use poison use wax blocks i do as i have some chickens and can shoot them and the wax blocks are very affective shove them down holes in bait boxes any where other animals can't get them.

[Alycidon]

This year I tried some blue stuff that consists of small balls, seems to have little effect. I find the red treated wheat does the best job.

 

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[agg221]

Thanks for your comments - good thing this is an internet forum rather than a face-to-face conversation as talking with my very sore tongue would be difficult:001_tt2:

 

Close inspection in the area this evening reveals that I do indeed have both a first strike mouse, that gets in and nicks the Nutella, and a rather slower rat that then doesn't have anything worth eating and hence doesn't bother walking on my nice trap.

 

I could go for the 'wait until the mouse is heavy enough to set the trap off' approach, but I resent feeding it that much Nutella, so I think two traps will be set, side by side in a 'his and hers' configuration.

 

Alec

[doobin]

Thanks for your comments - good thing this is an internet forum rather than a face-to-face conversation as talking with my very sore tongue would be difficult:001_tt2:

 

Close inspection in the area this evening reveals that I do indeed have both a first strike mouse, that gets in and nicks the Nutella, and a rather slower rat that then doesn't have anything worth eating and hence doesn't bother walking on my nice trap.

 

I could go for the 'wait until the mouse is heavy enough to set the trap off' approach, but I resent feeding it that much Nutella, so I think two traps will be set, side by side in a 'his and hers' configuration.

 

Alec

 

PMSL! :lol:

[doobin]

Oh, and try squishing a sultana onto the pin of the trap- I've only had it nicked twice in the last month, and had over a dozen confirmed mouse kills. Lately I've been running through a litter of young rats in the bigger trap- they're easy as they're still dumb!

[Stubby]

Just put a small mouse trap down first . then the rat traps after you got the mouse . //